The convenience of digital downloads comes with a price: you might not have to deal with physical media, but you normally can't return the stuff you purchase on major distribution platforms like Steam either. But increasingly, other smaller services are willing to treat digital games a bit more like physical ones.
Wing Commander is once again complete. With today's release of Wing Commander: Armada on GOG, each and every title from the classic space sim series has now been modernized for today's PCs. Well, except for Wing Commander Arena. But it's probably better that way.
Today in Dumb Yet Hilarious Publicity Stunts, here's online gaming store Good Old Games honoring the U.S. government shutdown with a special sale.
It's raining expansion packs. GOG, still celebrating its fifth birthday, has made the expansion packs for five classic Bullfrog games available for free. So, owners of Syndicate, Dungeon Keeper, Magic Carpet, Populous, or Populous: The Beginning, know that another small part of your childhood has now been restored.
A deeply unsettling horror-adventure game makes a return. I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream, the '95 point-and-click adventure based on the sci-fi short story of the same name, is once again available via GOG. It's one of Kotaku's must-play
Shelter, the game where you're a badger mum protecting her cubs, is now out. You can grab it on Steam, GOG, or get it directly from the developers at their website. Above is the game's release trailer, titled "Fall Again," and should you be interested in how Shelter looks in action, you can watch us play the game here
The re-imagining of Rise of the Triad is here and unafraid to let you loose with nothing to guide you other than your intuition. Too bad my intuition is rubbish. I get myself lost on the way to the shops. But it's safe to say Rise of the Triad is as gore-filled and over the top as you'd expect from a game based on the …
Interceptor Entertainment's HD re-imagining of the classic 1994 shooter Rise of the Triad is now available on GOG. The Steam version, which supports Steam Workshop for its user-made levels and mods, should follow later today.
Omikron: The Nomad Soul, 1999's futuristic and highly complex action-adventure title, is now on GOG.
GoG's Black Friday sale is on, with 20 indie games taking part in a pick-five-pay-$10 promotion. Pretty damn good value.
Ubisoft's huge GoG catalogue is 60% off this weekend. There's bound to be something in there for pretty much everyone.
GoG launches a pay-what-you-want Divinity series bundle with an advertised value of $32.
GoG's running a huge sale on retro Activision titles this weekend. I'd recommend picking up at least Arcanum.
If you're looking for a challenge, you can now pick up the remake of oldie-but-goodie La Mulana from GoG.
Big gaming distribution deals happen in the back rooms of E3. They happen in big metal skyscrapers and sterile board rooms in New York City and San Francisco. And sometimes they happen by exchanging pictures on Twitter.
For the next two days, the classic post-apocalyptic RPG Fallout will be a free download from GoG.com. Looks like it's time to explore the wastes again.
If these two aren't the most hugged girls at PAX 2011, well, shame on all of you. Shame. But kudos to Good Old Games, for their clever casting, both eye-catching and well within the bounds of PAX's costumed booth-representative policy.
The entire site of Good Old Games, the online seller of classic - and DRM-free - video games, has been taken offline and replaced with a message saying the service has been closed. Update: This is looking like a marketing move.
Today, Outcast was released on retro downloadable games service Good Old Games. It's only $6, so I'm going to recommend it to almost everyone. And not because it's a good game.
I think we'll be writing about Good Old Games a lot in 2009, if moves like this are anything to go on. Especially when those moves entail Beneath A Steel Sky being offered for free.
